Female reader
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| + | "Most noble [[female reader|damsel]]s, for whose solace I have addressed myself to so long a labour, I have now, methinketh, with the aid of the Divine favour, (vouchsafed me, as I deem, for your pious prayers and not for my proper merits,) throughly accomplished that which I engaged."--''[[The Decameron]]'' (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio | ||
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| + | [[Image:A Young Girl Reading.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Young Girl Reading]]'' (c.[[1776]]) by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard |Fragonard]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:The Bathtub (1867) by Alfred Stevens.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Bath]]'' ([[1867]]) - [[Alfred Stevens (painter)|Alfred Stevens]]]] | ||
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| - | :''[[Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]'' | + | In the [[history of fiction]], women have been voracious readers, depicted many times as such in painting during [[Early modernity]]. |
| - | ''[[Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]'' (c.[[1780]])) is an [[oil painting]] measuring 81 x 65 cm . | + | ==See also== |
| - | + | *[[Criticism of literacy]] | |
| - | It was painted by French painter ''[[Auguste Bernard d'Agesci]]'' and its subject was a [[female reader]] [[swooning]] over the [[correspondence]] by [[Abelard]] and [[Heloise]] in the posthumously published ''[[Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]''. | + | *[[Women's fiction]] |
| + | *[[Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard]] | ||
| + | *[[Women read fiction, men read non-fiction]] | ||
| + | *[[Women's studies]] | ||
| + | *[[Nude females reading in art]] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_females_reading_in_art] | ||
| + | *''[[La Lectrice]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Le Midi]]'' | ||
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"Most noble damsels, for whose solace I have addressed myself to so long a labour, I have now, methinketh, with the aid of the Divine favour, (vouchsafed me, as I deem, for your pious prayers and not for my proper merits,) throughly accomplished that which I engaged."--The Decameron (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio |
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In the history of fiction, women have been voracious readers, depicted many times as such in painting during Early modernity.
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See also
- Criticism of literacy
- Women's fiction
- Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard
- Women read fiction, men read non-fiction
- Women's studies
- Nude females reading in art [1]
- La Lectrice
- Le Midi
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